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...When we aren't getting newsreels, we're getting routine footage of guerrilla clashes in the jungle. ... All this movie inspires toward the Cuban Revolution is excruciating boredom..." He wrote this in 1969, in a review of the flop Hollywood bio-pic Che!, with the not-very-Latin Omar Sharif as Guevara. Yet most of Ebert's denunciations apply to Soderbergh's movie, which dispenses with the exclamation point - and, in fact, with almost all of the compelling, sometimes contradictory drama in Guevara's life...
...claiming that the country's civilian politicians were too feckless and self-serving to govern effectively. And he may be feeling vindicated by the collapse of the coalition that took power in March after Pakistan's electorate delivered a stinging rebuke to Musharraf. On Monday, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated a new season of political instability by announcing that his Pakistani Muslim League (PML-N) would withdraw on Tuesday from the government led by the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) - the party now led by Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto...
...very tightly, it turned out. The issue that broke the coalition was how to restore the Supreme Court judges dismissed by Musharraf late last year, when he feared they could deem his reelection as President unconstitutional. While Sharif's party has insisted on their immediate and unconditional reinstatement, the PPP has argued any reinstatement should form part of a wider judicial reform process that would also limit the powers of the Chief Justice. But the issue may be more than simply technical: given Musharraf's opposition to the return of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as head of the judiciary...
...Despite the breakdown, neither party seems willing to finalize a split. A PPP statement following Sharif's announcement said that there was "no doubt that the sacked judges have to be restored ... the only question is how best to do it." Sharif, for his part, also took a conciliatory tone, saying he was "very pained" by his decision. But after weeks of talks, including a crisis meeting between the two men in London over the weekend, the issue is unlikely to be resolved, and there is a real chance that the two parties will slide back into the destructive merry...
...unacceptable that, while giving peace to the world, we make our own country a killing field.' NAWAZ SHARIF, former Pakistani Prime Minister, criticizing President Pervez Musharraf for siding with the U.S. in taking a hard line against Islamic militants, which he says has exacerbated political violence in Pakistan...